Cooking Modernity: Nutrition Policies, Class, and Gender in 1940s and 1950s Mexico City

• Sandra Aguilar-Rodríguez ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Manchester

     University of Manchester

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: The Americas: A quarterly review of inter-american cultural history, ISSN 0003-1615, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2007, págs. 177-205
• Idioma: inglés
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  • As dawn broke in Mexico City's streets, steamy pots opened to offer the delicious smell of hot tamales and atole. Lupita woke up early that morning to sell tamales in the usual corner of Niño Perdido street in Mexico City's downtown. In that year, 1947, the construction of the Latin American Tower had just started. Lupita observed the builders digging deeply in the foundations while she sipped her atole and served red and green sauce tamales to her customers. In 1940s and 1950s Mexico City, workers and low-ranking bureaucrats started their day with this popular meal, as they had done since colonial times. Reformers, however, questioned the nutritional value of the working-class diet and considered it as a threat to the construction of modern Mexico.